Schedule for Friday, March 8

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"...a stinging, brutally funny satire of modern politics from Chilean filmmaker Pablo Larrain that ads up to lesson on how to defeat a despot with a Smile button." (Peter Travers, Rolling Stone)

Academy Award Nominee- Best Foreign Language Film

When controversial military dictator Augusto Pinochet's permanence of power is put up to a vote of "yes" or "no", opposition leaders hire a young advertising executive, Rene Saavedra (Gael Garcia Bernal), to spearhead their campaign. With scant resources and under scrutiny by the despot's minions, Saavedra and his team devise an audacious plan to win the election and set Chile free.

Le Grand Amour

The delightfully bizarre story of a married man who falls in love and starts to dream. The NY Times says it "has a directness and comic purity that a child would enjoy….Sprinkled throughout, though, are involved passages that spin gloriously, surrealistically, off the narrative rails.”

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Happy Anniversary: This Oscar winner (Best Short Subject) is crammed with all manner of things that get in the way of that special dinner. • 1962. 12 m. NR. France, in French with subtitles. Janus Films.

The Gatekeepers

"It is guaranteed to trouble any one, left, right, center or head in the sand, with confidence or certainly in his or her own opinions. If you need reassurance or grounds for optimism about the Middle East, you will not find it here. What you will find is rare, welcome and almost unbearable clarity." (A.O. Scott, NY Times)

Academy Award Nominee for Documentary Feature

For the first time ever, six former heads of the Shin Bet, Israel's secret service agency, agree to share their insights and reflect publicly on their actions and decisions. Filmmaker Dror Moreh gets candid answers from a notoriously secretive group of men, the final result-- a fasicinating and penetrating look at five decades of Israeli history.

Ferat Vampire

A one-of-a-kind movie about, yes, vampires—but any resemblance to other movies about bloodsuckers ends there. This witty, satirical, bloody treat imagines a racecar (a prototype from the real Czech automaker Skoda) that runs not on gas, but on human blood. What will society endure for the thrill of speed?